![]() ![]() He brings both a balance and a polish to the story that makes the book easily among the best resources on the subject available. It is hard to avoid repetition and keep a reader engaged throughout the course of a book of this length, but Ferling is a master at conveying the sights, sounds, and emotions of individual moments in time. He moves quickly and deftly through even the most complex topics, keeping his narrative lively and compelling. The amount of material is overwhelming as Ferling traces the war in detail but surprisingly, does not get bogged down in any area. Having taken a few months to conquer, we both feel like we have fought the war ourselves and are left rethinking many of our previous assumptions of the war.įrom the war’s beginnings at Lexington and Concord to the Treaty of Paris eight years later, readers of this book are marched through the conflict with analysis interpreting battles, campaigns, and diplomacy from both the Patriot and British perspectives. This nearly 600 page work must be the most comprehensive account of the military history of the American Revolution in existence. Epic!! That word not only describes the American Revolution itself, but John Ferling’s mammoth tome Almost a Miracle, The American Victory in the War of Independence. ![]()
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